The United States has imposed new sanctions on Iran

The US government imposed new economic and judicial sanctions against Iran on Friday, February 2, at a time when its armed forces carried out strikes in Iran and Syria, targeting Tehran’s Revolutionary Guards and pro-Iranian groups. Justice Minister Merrick Garland and Damien Williams, the federal prosecutor for New York’s Manhattan jurisdiction, announced the action. “Terrorism, sanctions evasion, fraud and money laundering against seven individuals in an oil laundering network organized by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a foreign terrorist organization and its Quds Force”., its elite unit. The Revolutionary Guards constitute the ideological army of the Tehran regime.

In a press release, the American Justice on Iranian officials and Turkish executives of Ankara’s energy group. “Laundering and selling of Iranian oil to buyers linked to China, Russia and Syria to finance the Quds Force to support Iranian terrorism”.. The Manhattan Federal Prosecutor’s Office also made the announcement “Seizure of $108 million that Revolutionary Guard companies were trying to launder through the accounts of American financial institutions”.. “Iran uses its black market oil sales channels to finance its criminal activities, such as its support for the Revolutionary Guards, Hamas, Hezbollah and other affiliated terrorist groups.”Minister Garland announced in a press release.

Shahed attempted drone and cyber attacks

On Friday morning, the US Treasury announced new sanctions against Iranian companies and individuals involved in, or involved in, the production of Shahed combat drones and attempted cyber attacks on infrastructure in the United States. Natural and legal persons accused of having or being associated with the Revolutionary Guards. In 2021, cyber attacks also targeted a pediatric hospital in Boston (north-east), but also several European countries and Israel. “Intentional targeting of critical infrastructure by Iranian cyber actors is an unacceptable and dangerous act. (that) The United States will not tolerate”thundered Treasury Undersecretary Brian Nelson in a statement.

For Shahed drone production, the sanctions target Chinese companies in Hong Kong. They are accused of supplying components to companies and people targeted by American sanctions. The sanctions also target a Chinese company suspected of links to the Revolutionary Guards and accused of selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian raw materials on behalf of the China Oil and Petroleum Company Group. These sanctions result in the prohibition of all assets held directly and indirectly in the United States by the relevant individuals and companies, as well as any company or individual located in the United States from conducting financial transactions with these individuals. institutions